All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience read more

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his read more

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the read more

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by read more

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

I worked with patience which means almost power.